Lincs coast farm launches alongside smallholdings and woodland

The pace and scale of property coming to the market is showing its seasonal easing, with a number of smaller launches this week.

Beaconsfield Farm, due for launch shortly, is on the Lincolnshire coast, near Marshchapel and described by Isabel Chennells of selling agent Brown & Co as a highly productive 280-acre arable farm with deep, stone-free soils.

“The land has grown well-yielding cereal crops in the recent past and parts are suitable for potatoes,” she says.

Farm buildings include a 478sq m grain store with a drying floor.

See also: Launches of farms and land from Devon to Lanarkshire  

The four-bedroom farmhouse is subject to an assured shorthold tenancy agreement.

Beaconsfield Farm will be launched at a guide price of £3.25m and will also be available in three lots.

Haverlands Farm, East Devon © Stags

Devon smallholding

Two smallholdings are on the market too, one in Devon and the other in Wales.

Haverlands Farm, at Yarcombe, Honiton, a ring-fenced holding accessed via a long private drive, is being sold following the death of its owner.

Its 57 acres of Grade 3 land, in permanent pasture and temporary grassland, are well suited to mowing, grazing and autumn-sown crops, according to selling agent Stags.

Soils are a mix of slightly acid loam and clay and freely draining, slightly acid loam.

Some of the land is subject to a farm business tenancy until 31 October 2026, and there is also a Mid Tier Countryside Stewardship scheme agreement in place until December 2027.

A range of modern and traditional farm buildings have potential for alternative uses subject to planning consent, and there is a Grade II listed three-bedroom thatched farmhouse.

Haverlands Farm is being sold as a whole at a guide price of £1.1m or is available in two lots.

New House Farm © Savills

Monmouthshire option to expand

A Monmouthshire smallholding comes with the chance to increase its acreage significantly.

New House Farm, at Llandenny, near Usk, comes with 13 acres but is set in 135 acres – land which selling agent Savills describes as quality pastureland for grazing and cropping.

The agent’s head of residential and rural sales in South and West Wales, Daniel Rees, says the sale comes with the option to buy more of this land.

New House Farm, the one-time home of the Rosparry Holstein Friesian herd, is on the market at a guide price of £1m.

The farmstead has modern agricultural buildings for housing livestock, feed and for machinery storage. There is also a large manure store.

Two of the more traditional buildings, large stone barns, have planning permission for conversion to residential dwellings.

The four-bedroom farmhouse, thought to have been built in the 1600s, sits next to a large walled garden.

The farm is for sale as a whole or in up to five lots.

Two of the lots, a field and a small parcel of grassland and hard-standing storage area, are subject to a 35-year overage clause requiring 40% of any uplift in value on the grant of planning consent for non-agricultural use.

Shotley Estate woodlands © Savills

North-eastern woodland 

Savills is also marketing woodlands historically owned and managed by the Shotley Estate at Consett, Northumberland.

The 541-acre sale is mostly commercial woodland blocks managed for timber production but includes a 40-acre block of mainly arable land. 

The woodlands have stands of mixed aged timber, mostly well-established Scots pine, Norway spruce, Sitka spruce and Douglas fir, which generate a regular income.

Many of the compartments have direct access from the public highway.

The entire woodland is entered into a Countryside Stewardship Higher Tier Woodland Improvement Grant (WD2) scheme until the end of 2026.

Savills has set a guide price of £3.53m for the whole, or there is the opportunity to buy it in up to four lots. The 40 acres of mainly arable land is in a single block with a seven-acre wood, and is guided at £350,000.